I know you’ve seen it. Sprinkled inside of various political comment threads across the internet, and the occasional high profile youtuber or writer- the harrowing tales of “why I left the left”.
Every single one of them spin a heartfelt yarn about how they searched for community and camaraderie in the online left and were instead greeted by hate and ridicule. That level of pure vitriol spewed by social justice warriors and woke college students pushed, nay, forcefully SHOVED them out of the left and into the open and loving arms of the conservative movement. There they found the fellowship that they were so desperate to find, and saw the error of their ways in their former beliefs. They would no longer let a movement full of uninviting jerks blind them from the true problems plaguing our great nation, and the super real solutions to fix them.

Sounds like bullshit? Well that’s because it is (mostly).

The left is full of sarcastic assholes and know-it-all gatekeepers, so on that part they couldn’t be more correct. They are beyond mean to the right, the center, and even worse to each other. What in the fuck does that have to do with who I think the president should be? How shallow does someone’s beliefs have to be to change based on who gave them a compliment last? Man I really wanted to support universal healthcare but some dude with BLM in their bio told me to fuck myself!
Politics is about what direction we should go in, and who should be driving. We take an honest look at the injustices and challenges facing our people and see what can be done to fix them. The journey is complicated but the starting line is pretty simple. Who should have rights or what policies help the average American best is not connected to which side of the political spectrum invited me over for coffee.
So you know that it’s a position either made up by bad-faith actors trying to paint the left as universally terrible, or people that were never left leaning in the first place.

These sorts of narratives are really only made to push the uninformed to the right. People just getting into politics might see these accounts of the abusive left and not give them a second look, till they have already assumed the position waiting patiently for trickle-down to trickle down to them. Any ideology that requires such obfuscation must have some pretty shit ideas if you ask me.

Just come clean with what you really believe and make your arguments, then let the asshole left show up and make fun of them.